Bibliograph

See/saw, looking at photographs, essays 2010-2020, Geoff Dyer

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See/saw, looking at photographs, essays 2010-2020, Geoff Dyer

Language

eng

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Includes bibliographical references

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illustrations

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no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

See/saw

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1182599403

Responsibility statement

Geoff Dyer

Sub title

looking at photographs, essays 2010-2020

Summary

'See/Saw' is an illuminating history of how photographs frame and change our perspectives. Starting from single images by the world's most important photographers - from Eugene Atget to Alex Webb - Geoff Dyer shows us how to read a photograph, as he takes us through a series of close readings that are by turns moving, funny, prescient and surprising. Following Dyer's previous books on photography, 'The Ongoing Moment' and 'The Street Philosophy of Garry Winogrand', 'See/Saw' brilliantly combines visual scrutiny and stylistic flair. It shows us how a photograph can simultaneously record and invent the world, and reveals a master seer at work. In the spirit of the intellectual curiosity of Berger, Sontag and Didion, Geoff Dyer helps us to see the world around us, and within us, afresh

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